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Re: Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people

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Looks awesome and the concept is great.. One comment, the first person I clicked into, ralph-merkle, the most recent content is dated October 1st, 2021 then when clicking the link shows a paper dated from 4th Quarter 2008.

Ah, thanks for the heads up. Our scripts still mess up the dates sometimes. It's harder than you'd think to pull dates from papers. Just fixed. Thank you!

Definitely understand, parsing and converting dates/time is tricky.

Re: Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people

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Looks pretty good. The icon for the Essays category on the alias page for Paul Graham looks like the Medium logo to me, even though he is publishing his posts on his own site not hosted on Medium.

Yep. We've been meaning to change that for a while, thanks for reminding us.

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I have mixed feelings about this as someone that creates a bunch of content across different platforms. I intentionally spread it out across platforms as different platforms have different groups of people that follow me and engage with things differently. This is a nice idea but feels like it could be used for stalking. It would be nice if there was an explicit opt-in for creators having their feeds associated here instead of them being aggregated somehow and put there through some heuristic.

Re: Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people

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I really like this website design especially on mobile - how did you make it?

hey thanks! Nothing special just plain old CSS. :)

As far as our overall stack — we've been pretty happy with NextJS/TypeScript on the frontend and Hasura to power the backend. We use a combination of Vercel and Heroku for hosting!

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